Nigeria suffers 700,000b/d crude oil outage over vandalism

14 September 2017, Sweetcrude, Lagos — The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) says it deferred an average of 700,000 barrels of crude oil per day (bopd) in 2016 due to pipeline sabotage. Group Managing Director of the NNPC, Dr. Maikanti Baru, according to a statement by the corporation, said vandalism brought Nigeria’s production down to […] More »